WATCH: How Drones Could Revolutionize the Supply Chain

A new video from CNBC demonstrates how autonomous drones could revolutionize the supply chain and provide much-needed disruption to an industry that has remained largely unchanged since the 1950s.

In the video, titled ‘How Drones Could Change The Shipping Industry’, CNBC talks to a host of supply chain experts and tech entrepreneurs that believe the answer to many problems in cargo transportation could be autonomous drones.

The boom in e-commerce has increased consumer expectation –
a concept explored in a recent PTI insight on the rise of digital logistics –
and this has meant goods have to move quicker than traditional methods allow.